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Paper and Scissors...No Rock
Take a ride on the paper and scissor train with me…we will make multiple stops at the celebratory occasions like birthdays, graduations, baby showers, and weddings to the sentimental times like sending you a simple thank you and to the situations where someone needs to be comforted as we send our condolences.
By Samantha Squalls5 years ago in Lifehack
The Pleiadian Project
I have always had a creative flare within me. Especially during my childhood, I would spend hours upon hours creating art projects for my loved ones. My favorite thing to make was cutting hearts out of construction paper. They would be of various sizes and colors, then I would stack them one on top of another. It would be alternating colors and, in my mind, it was a cool 3-D effect. I would make all kinds of things by myself upstairs at my grandmother’s house. I was basically an only child because my siblings were 12 and 20 years older than me. My grandma always bought the best of everything. Now anyone who has cut construction paper knows that a quality pair of scissors makes a huge difference. Not just in how the project ends up looking but in the level of frustration within the creator. I did not really appreciate the quality of my artistic tools until I got fully immersed in my newest creative venture, Project Pleiades. This is a project that brings me back to the artistic solitude I felt when I was a child. It’s a bittersweet feeling because I do enjoy being alone and creating something that is meaningful to me but it does get lonely. The loneliness gets thicker and harder to swallow when you want to share your craft with someone and then no one is interested.
By Mikey Lane, MS, LPC, Energy Healer, Medium5 years ago in Lifehack
Making art that feels like magic
I love art and creative expression. They get me so excited. I love making art, I love looking at art, I love talking about art. Even seeing other people being creative brings me joy. I'm getting all fired up just writing this...
By Pavlina Janssen5 years ago in Lifehack
Instant Noodle Recycling Art
I am living in Vancouver, Canada as a first generation immigrant woman in my 40s from South Korea. I have never married and I am single, living with two cats in a shared house with three to seven different people in this house (depending on room occupancies of this rental house) All of my past and current roommates are not Korean but mostly Canadian born and raised citizens or immigrants from other countries. When I first moved into this shared house two years ago, I moved my living city from Toronto to Vancouver with two of my cats. In Toronto, the big metropolitan city that most people don't seem to care much of consuming synthetic chemicals and processed food, and I also wasn't very self conscious about my ethnic food consumption in that urban environment. However, after I moved to this house where my roommates at that time were in a quite strictly health conscious and environmentally friendly food consumption lifestyle, I often felt cringed and ashamed of my eating Korean processed food like instant noodle. Whenever I could sense a disdained look or funny comment on my meal choices or grocery shopping items from my roommates, I felt often torn.
By Khema Young-Hwa Cho5 years ago in Lifehack
FUN WITH BARBED WIRE
I love the texture of old rusty iron, the subtle ripples of its surface where air has nibbled it away over decades. I love the red-orange colour which is earthy and natural, a far cry from primary colours and shiny galvanized silver of new metal.
By Fiona Hamer5 years ago in Lifehack
If Happiness was a Sofa.
Cry Now. Laugh Later. As for everyone, the year 2020 was an experience that I didn’t think I would see in my lifetime. Every time I think about the events of twenty-twenty a flash Back to the future, the movie, always come to mind. “Whatever you do Marty, don’t ever go to 2020!” I laugh now, but I cried just about three-fourths of the year, then. As awful as it was, as my anxiety rose to the highest levels as it could I found solace in creating work for myself, for family members, and for others.
By Ojhoana Flemming 5 years ago in Lifehack
Confessions Of A Scrap Addict...
DAY ONE: Dear Diary, The damage has been done and there is no going back. I took that fatal first step of attending a scrapbooking lesson today. Everything I thought I knew about creating and happiness, has been thrown out the window. I am now a junkie who will need her daily fix of scrapping. Please send help! But I honestly fear I cannot be saved.
By Julianne McKenna5 years ago in Lifehack
I Turned My Art Project into My Passion
Have you ever heard the saying "before Alice got to wonderland, she had to fall."? Well, that was me a year ago. I was in a place where I felt stuck and didn't know what to do with my life anymore until I started working on a crafty project that changed my life, opened my eyes, and helped me tune into my true self.
By T'Nasha Thomas5 years ago in Lifehack
Please, Call Me an Amateur
I’ve long outgrown my desire to grow up. When I was sixteen, I couldn’t wait until I was older when my life would be put together and wrapped in a picket fence. In college, I dreamt of being an intimidating businesswoman, pencil skirt included, who had every answer and could join a room of hotshot office execs like it was just another Tuesday. Then I realized how boring that sounded. It dawned upon me one sunny morning that I would much rather live life like a kid, jumping into muddy puddles, laughing so loud that everyone stares, collecting rocks and bits of trash that only sparkle for my eyes, and not caring what anyone else thinks about me.
By Katie Collins5 years ago in Lifehack
Creating Happiness
Creating happiness 2021.06.09 The steps to happiness though the craft of wrapping gifts. Most of us have wrapped a gift and over the years we get better at this gesture of love that we give to our friends, to our family and our love. For many years I have thought about this act and how we take it for granted. We normally think of it more as a chore or a task on a list to check off. Perhaps a bothersome moment or inconvenience for some. I think over the years I have become very skilled from years of practice. This is for the ones who never think they have artistic talent but do. There are acts we do without ever thinking they could be considered an art form. Wrapping a gift for someone is in fact an art form that we all partake in. I love receiving gifts but not as much as giving them. The whole act brings me happiness.
By Theartistjosko5 years ago in Lifehack
